Improvement in clothes-driers and curtain-stretchers



J- A- GREEN;

` CLOTHES Damas AND CRTAIN sTRETcHEns. 4 N.181,5z9, v Patented Aug; ze,187s.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. GREEN, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1S 1,529, datedAugust29, 1876; application filed May 4, 1876.

To all whom it 'may concer/n Be it known that I, JAMES ADAM GREEN, ofthe city oi'- Toronto, in the county of York,

Province of Ontario, Dominiouof Canada.'

have invented certain new and useful Improvements for Stretching andDoing Up of Lace Curtains; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the same.

By reference to the accompanying drawings it will be seen that Figurelis a front view of the operating device. Fig. 2 is a side view,

' showing upright bar E at one end, which bar is fastened to long bars Band A at I. Fig. 3 is also a side view, showing the movable upright ba'rE at the other end of device, and

having a slot and mortises through which the bar being to allow thebrass pins in long bars to pass without being removed from the same. Themortises shown in both uprights permit the long bar-B to be movedtherein to accommodate curtains of different widths.

The long bars A and B are filled with brass pins a, for fastening thecurtainsonto frames for drying when starched, and the uprights E E arealso filled with pins of the same material, and for the same purpose.

E E are uprights to receive long bars A B. I I are Wooden pins forholding the frame together when the long bars A and B or the uprights EE are moved to accommodate the width or length of curtains to bestretched.

What I claim as my invention c0nsists-.

In the combination of the uprights E and bars A B, provided withheadless brass pins a, mortises D, slots C, pins I, and notches b b b,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JAMES ADAM GREEN. A In presence of- WM. BRUG-E, WM. B. BRUCE.

